The Google doodle today stands in the sign of the comic strip Little Nemo in Slumberland by Winsor McCay. Today it is 107 years ago that the first strip appeared in the New York Herald.

Winsor McCay was an American cartoonist and filmmaker character. His first comics appeared late nineteenth century in the Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. His greatest fame he brought the comic Little Nemo in Slumberland, which from 1905 in the New York Herald was. The Doodle is not only completely drawn in the style of Little Nemo, but also interactive: a party to watch! This time Little Nemo in Slumberland but not in Google country. The original newspaper strip ran from 1905 to 1914 and went on Little Nemo, a boy adventures in Slumberland. A video of the complete Doodle here.Winsor McCay

Winsor McCay was born on September 26, 1871 and died of a stroke in 1934. In the beginning, the strips are not as popular but that changed later. McCay is also known for the animated film Gertie the Dinosaur in 1914, which is seen as the first animated film around a specific character in character credible elaborated. It is even as American national heritage gezien.Hij also made the first true animated film, Gertie the Dinosaur (1914). That would be a source of inspiration for the famous character filmmaker of all time, Walt Disney.